Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

First of all, the Big Bang wasn't very big. Second of all, there was no bang. Third, Big Bang Theory doesn't tell you what banged, when it banged, how it banged. It just said it did bang. So the Big Bang theory in some sense is a total misnomer.

Hubble has really opened our eyes to what the universe is made of, its structure, and has helped us learn how little we know about the universe.

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can get about the earliest instants that go on in the universe.

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

The universe is a great mystery.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.